Evolito Acquires Aerospace Battery Company Electroflight to Create Full Powertrain Solutions Capability

Evoli­to, a pri­vate­ly-owned com­pa­ny design­ing and man­u­fac­tur­ing world-lead­ing elec­tric motors and con­trollers for aero­space appli­ca­tions, has today announced the acqui­si­tion of the busi­ness and assets of Chel­tenham-based aero­space bat­tery solu­tions com­pa­ny Elec­troflight.

Evoli­to, which sup­plies high-pow­er den­si­ty, light-weight elec­tric motors and con­trollers for elec­tric aero­space appli­ca­tions, was spun out in 2021 by elec­tric motor and con­troller pio­neer YASA, now a whol­ly owned sub­sidiary of Mer­cedes-Benz.

Evoli­to claims its axi­al-flux motors and con­trollers are small­er and lighter, and have a high­er safe­ty fac­tor than any oth­er com­pet­ing elec­tric propul­sion tech­nol­o­gy, to enable a range of new elec­tric propul­sion appli­ca­tions help­ing to accel­er­ate the industry’s move towards net zero emis­sions.

Elec­troflight has a proven track record of deliv­er­ing safe­ty crit­i­cal, inno­v­a­tive bat­tery solu­tions for elec­tri­fy­ing the aero­space indus­try. Fol­low­ing the acqui­si­tion, Elec­troflight will become a whol­ly-owned sub­sidiary of Evoli­to and will focus on deliv­er­ing next-gen­er­a­tion bat­tery tech­nol­o­gy to com­ple­ment Evolito’s motors and con­trollers.

Evoli­to chief com­mer­cial offi­cer Ajay Lukha said: “We are very excit­ed to com­plete the acqui­si­tion of Elec­troflight today.

“The com­bined capa­bil­i­ties will enable us to deliv­er flex­i­ble solu­tions for our cus­tomers, from best-in-class motor and con­troller sub­sys­tems to ful­ly-inte­grat­ed elec­tric pow­er­trains.”

Based in Oxford, Evoli­to lever­ages tech­nol­o­gy proven at scale by OEMs in the auto­mo­tive EV indus­try and investors include B‑Flexion and Oxford Sci­ence Enter­pris­es (OSE).

Both YASA and Elec­troflight were also part­ners in the Rolls Royce Spir­it of Inno­va­tion elec­tric air­craft project which broke the elec­tric speed record ear­li­er this year.

In ear­ly 2021, Evoli­to was spun out by YASA Motors, one of the world’s lead­ing pio­neers of auto­mo­tive axi­al-flux elec­tric motors which was acquired by Mer­cedes-Benz ear­li­er in the year.